Digby, a small seaport of Nova Scotia, on St Mary's Bay, reputed for its curing of a variety of small herrings or pilchards ('Nova Scotia sprats'). There was a great fire in February 1899. Pop. 1951.
Digby
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 812
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